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Isanti-Chisago County Star reports… East Central Energy is proud to announce that construction for ECE Fiber started on May 8, 2023. Construction will consist of installing both overhead and underground fiber lines, starting in the Dalbo area before moving to Ogilvie, Braham, and Pine City throughout the remainder of the year. The cooperative first explored…
FCC extends deadline for the requirement that television broadcasters aurally describe visual but non-textual emergency information
The commission says revisions reveal almost 330,000 more locations without service, plus more than a million new locations with broadband.
Utility EPB last year launched citywide 25-gig as well as the country’s first commercially available quantum network.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U. S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA) was being myopic with fiberoptic when it released its new rules that will govern the expenditure o
The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.
The new Digital Equity Act Population Viewer will help meet the funding goals of the Digital Equity Act of 2021.
Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity, which recently marked down the value of its equity stake in the company. Musk has acknowledged he overpaid for Twitter, which he bought for $44 billion, including $33.5 billion in equity. More recently, he said Twitter is worth less than half what he paid for it. It’s unclear how Fidelity arrived at its new, lower valuation or whether it receives any non-public information from the company.
The Internet for All folks report on the latest iteration of the national broadband maps. A super quick comparison to maps used for the 2022 Minnesota County Profiles leaves me wondering what the difference is. I'm hoping over the next week to dive deeper into the topic - once I can do more than a…
Lawyer Steven Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman has been practicing law for three decades. Now, one case can completely derail his entire career. Why? He relied on ChatGPT in his legal filings(opens in a new tab) and the AI chatbot completely manufactured previous cases, which Schwartz cited, out of thin air.
The larger threat to all the other TV and streaming platforms: YouTube is actually better at selling today’s TV advertising than everyone else. Way, way better
Over 100 AI experts, engineers, and notable figures sign a 'Statement on AI Risk,' which says mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.
Once in a while, I see something in the industry press that gives me a pause. Telecompetitor reported that Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said on the company’s first quarter earning call that Charter is the “largest rural provider today.” As much as I work in and track the industry, I would never have connected the…
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European Union tech chief Margrethe Vestager said she believed a draft voluntary code of conduct for generative AI could be drawn up "within the next weeks", with a final proposal for industry to sign up "very, very soon".
Funding bills signed by Gov. Tim Walz feature $500 million in overall technology spending, including $130 million for Minnesota IT Services.
This week on the podcast, Christopher speaks with Keith Quarles, President and CFO of A2D, a fiber-based, open access competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). Chris and Keith discuss A2D’s business model, which focuses on filling in the gaps – serving communities where connectivity is unaffordable or the incumbent has chosen not to upgrade its infrastructure. Keith explains how many gaps still exist, even after the influx of federal funding for broadband. A2D takes a creative approach to building out fiber backbones in these pockets, which involves connecting existing ecosystems like municipalities, school systems, and electric membership corporations (Georgia’s equivalent of electric cooperatives).
AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.
The NTIA has acknowledged a clear preference for fiber in its bipartisan infrastructure deployment effort.
The FCC has seemingly joined forces with the marketing arm of the cellular industry in declaring that the spectrum between 7–16 GHz is now considered to be 6G. Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel recently announced that the agency would soon begin looking at the uses for this spectrum for mobile broadband. Specifically, the agency will be looking…
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office shares automated license plate reader information with hundreds of other agencies, including those in states that have bans on abortion.
This version will be used for allocating funds in the NTIA's BEAD program
With a new supportive city manager in office, Cambridge city leaders have agreed to continue to investigate the options laid out in a recently published feasibility study. The study found that for Cambridge to construct a financially sustainable citywide fiber network “a significant public contribution would be required” of between $150 and $200 million.
Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world.
While AI systems amaze and alarm the world in equal measure, they’re about to get even more powerful. Nvidia has announced a new class of supercomputer that will train the next generation of AI models, and put us all out of work far faster.
Hardee County will get the largest chunk of the funds announced by Gov. DeSantis, at more than $7 million.
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